Arabic Proverbs


Action	Actions speak louder than words. Arabic In haste is regret, in slowness peace. Tunisien
Advice	Your brother is who gives you honest advice. If you wanted obedience command with what is possible. Advise and council him if he doesn’t listen, let adversity teach him. African proverb. Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.
A	Arrogance diminishes wisdom. Arabic
Beauty	God is beautiful and cannot but love beauty. Beauty is beauty, drunk or sober. Moorish Beauty is skin deep. The one who you love is the one who is beautiful. Turkish Beauty Passes, wisdom remains. Turkish
Destiny	No water can wash away the destiny written on a man's forehead. Moroccan Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change. Arabic
Desire	All that your heart desires your spirit attain.
Discipline	Where the teacher strikes roses will grow. Turkish
Education	Seek education from the cradle to the grave. Seek education even if it takes you to China.
Evil	Leave evil, it will leave you. Pick the lesser of the two evils. If you oppress who is below you then you won't be safe from the punishment of who is above you. Evil in people does not go away when they get buried. Arabic
Envy	The envious person is the least happy. The worst emotion is envy.
Experience	Experimenting is the great science. Arabic One people's misfortune are another's people's instruction. Lebanese Experience are the glasses of the mind. A jug can pour forth only what it contains.
Generosity	Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts. Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you. Thank who gives you and give who thanks you. The best generosity is giving without being asked. The generous is never satisfied with riches. Arabic
Good Manners	Good manners is the greatest friend
Ideals	If you reach for the highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less than the stars. Have patience and you'll get what you want.
Intelligence	The greatest poverty is the lack of intelligence. Smart people are blessed. The smarter you get the less you speak. For smart people, signs can replace words. Human thinks and God plans. An Arab's intelligence is in his eyes. Arabic In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone.
Ignorance	Ignorance is the death of the living.
Knowledge	Forgetting is the plague of knowledge. I have taught you to dive, and now you wish to drown me. The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.
Learning	A scholar who does not produce is like a cloud that doesn't rain. Arabic Learning is a treasury whose keys are queries.
Lies	Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him. Lies are the plague of speech. Lying lets you live one night, the truth makes you live forever. Truth builds, lies destroy. Arabic
Movement	Movement is a blessing.
Mislead	The most misled is the one who misleads others. Sufi saying
Power	Unity is power. A problem is solved when it gets tougher.
Proverbs	Proverbs are the lamp of speech. Arabic
Purity	If the heart is empty, the rest will soon abandon you too. The purest people are the ones with good manners.
Silence	If talk is silver then silence is gold. Some silence is more informative than talk. The best medicine for the heart is silence. Arabic Some silence is more informative than talk.
Stupidity	Stupidity is a disease without a medicine.
Stinginess	Stinginess demeans the value of man. The stingy has a big porch and little morality.
Success	Success depends on a man's reputation, not his soul. Turkish
Teaching	I taught him archery everyday, and when he got good at it he throw an arrow at me.
Truth	Truth is the salt of mankind. Arabic The image of friendship is truth. Arabic A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. Arabic Falseness lasts an hour, and truth lasts till the end of time. Arabic
Wisdom	The wisest is the one who can forgive.
Women	A single woman destroyed Paradise. Arabic Intelligence is the ornament of every serious woman. Lebanese A fat woman is a blanket for winter. Even a one eyed guy will wink at a beautiful woman.
Work	Work is prayer. Arabic

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Arabic Proverbs

Action

Actions speak louder than words. Arabic

In haste is regret, in slowness peace. Tunisien

Advice

Your brother is who gives you honest advice.

If you wanted obedience command with what is possible.

Advise and council him if he doesn’t listen, let adversity teach him. African proverb.

Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.

A

Arrogance diminishes wisdom. Arabic

Beauty

God is beautiful and cannot but love beauty.

Beauty is beauty, drunk or sober. Moorish

Beauty is skin deep.

The one who you love is the one who is beautiful. Turkish

Beauty Passes, wisdom remains. Turkish

Destiny

No water can wash away the destiny written on a man's forehead. Moroccan

Only three things in life are certain birth, death and change. Arabic

Desire

All that your heart desires your spirit attain.

Discipline

Where the teacher strikes roses will grow. Turkish

Education

Seek education from the cradle to the grave.

Seek education even if it takes you to China.

Evil

Leave evil, it will leave you.

Pick the lesser of the two evils.

If you oppress who is below you then you won't be safe from the punishment of who is above you.

Evil in people does not go away when they get buried. Arabic

Envy

The envious person is the least happy.

The worst emotion is envy.

Experience

Experimenting is the great science. Arabic

One people's misfortune are another's people's instruction. Lebanese

Experience are the glasses of the mind.

A jug can pour forth only what it contains.

Generosity

Do good to people and you'll enslave their hearts.

Be generous to a generous person and you'd win him, be generous to a mean person and he'd rebel on you.

Thank who gives you and give who thanks you.

The best generosity is giving without being asked.

The generous is never satisfied with riches. Arabic

Good Manners

Good manners is the greatest friend

Ideals

If you reach for the highest of ideals, you shouldn't settle for less than the stars.

Have patience and you'll get what you want.

Intelligence

The greatest poverty is the lack of intelligence.

Smart people are blessed.

The smarter you get the less you speak.

For smart people, signs can replace words.

Human thinks and God plans.

An Arab's intelligence is in his eyes. Arabic

In the desert of life the wise person travels by caravan, while the fool prefers to travel alone.

Ignorance

Ignorance is the death of the living.

Knowledge

Forgetting is the plague of knowledge.

I have taught you to dive, and now you wish to drown me.

The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.

Learning

A scholar who does not produce is like a cloud that doesn't rain. Arabic

Learning is a treasury whose keys are queries.

Lies

Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him.

Lies are the plague of speech.

Lying lets you live one night, the truth makes you live forever.

Truth builds, lies destroy. Arabic

Movement

Movement is a blessing.

Mislead

The most misled is the one who misleads others. Sufi saying

Power